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To: B Knotts
"Expos might be on road again"

Bravo. That team has no business going back to Washington DC, a market that has proven itself to be anemic twice in the past 35 years. The only reason MLB selected WDC is because Bud Selig is a guilty white male liberal who wanted to placate America's highest-minority-population city.

It would be a guaranteed financial failure. One month after the announcement that the team would be moving, only 10,000 season tickets were sold. 10,000! In any viable market the season tickets would have been sold out already -- 40,000 or more.

Give the team to the Virginia suburbs, with a new ballpark out near Dulles. That's where it should have gone in the first place.

51 posted on 12/16/2004 4:51:08 PM PST by tom h
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To: tom h
Give the team to the Virginia suburbs

Virginia has already rejected it, both on the municipal level (they tried to put it in Arlington; Arlington told them to get lost) and on the state level (after they did a fast shuffle to get a tax hike to cure a non-existent deficit, the politicians are keeping their heads down).

72 posted on 12/20/2004 6:19:25 AM PST by steve-b (A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom)
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